The polis, as Aristotle as well as Plato clearly understand, is a small society, what could be called today a closed society.

如亚里士多德及柏拉图清楚明白,是一个小型的社会，即今日所称的封闭社会。

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So it's not just knowing what genes or figuring out ways to look at gene expression, it's figuring out how this expression of key genes affects the fate of the individual.

所以我们不仅仅是要了解那些基因能致病,也不仅是要弄明白基因的表达方式,更要搞清楚这种关键基因的表达,如何影响个人命运

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as Plato and Socrates clearly understand, a very real tendency within democracy to identify the good human being, you might say, the good sport, the regular guy, the cooperative fellow, you know, someone who goes along and gets along with others.

柏拉图和苏格拉底清楚地明白，那存在着一种很真实的倾向,在民主之中辨识出好的人性，你也许会说喜爱运动的人，好人，乐于合作的人，即可以轻易和众人,打成一片的人。

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